It seems RTL8169/RTL8168/RTL810xE has a kind of interrupt
moderation mechanism but it is not documented at all. The magic
value dramatically reduced number of interrupts without noticeable
performance drops so apply it to all RTL8169/RTL8169 controllers.
Vendor's FreeBSD driver also applies it to RTL810xE controllers but
their Linux driver explicitly cleared the register, so do not
enable interrupt moderation for RTL810xE controllers.
While I'm here sort 8169 specific registers.
Obtained from: RealTek FreeBSD driver
There were a couple of attempts in the past to reduce it since it
took more than 1ms. Because mii_tick() periodically polls link
status, waiting more than 1ms for each GMII register access was
overkill. Unfortunately all previous attempts were failed with
various ways on different controllers.
This time, add additional 20us dealy at the end of GMII register
access which seems to requirement of all RealTek controllers to
issue next GMII register access request. This is the same way what
Linux does.
useful counters like rl_missed_pkts is 16 bits quantity which is
too small to hold meaningful information happened in a second. This
means driver should frequently read these counters in order not to
lose accuracy and that approach is too inefficient in driver's
view. Moreover it seems there is no way to trigger an interrupt to
detect counter near-full or wraparound event as well as lacking
clearing the MAC counters. Another limitation of reading the
counters from RealTek controllers is lack of interrupt firing at
the end of DMA cycle of MAC counter read request such that driver
have to poll the end of the DMA which is a time consuming process
as well as inefficient. The more severe issue of the MAC counter
read request is it takes too long to complete the DMA. All these
limitation made maintaining MAC counters in driver impractical. For
now, just provide simple sysctl interface to trigger reading the
MAC counters. These counters could be used to track down driver
issues. Users can read MAC counters maintained in controller with
the following command.
#sysctl dev.re.0.stats=1
While I'm here add check for validity of dma map and allocated
memory before unloading/freeing them.
Tested by: rmacklem
the NIC drivers as well as the PHY drivers to take advantage of the
mii_attach() introduced in r213878 to get rid of certain hacks. For
the most part these were:
- Artificially limiting miibus_{read,write}reg methods to certain PHY
addresses; we now let mii_attach() only probe the PHY at the desired
address(es) instead.
- PHY drivers setting MIIF_* flags based on the NIC driver they hang
off from, partly even based on grabbing and using the softc of the
parent; we now pass these flags down from the NIC to the PHY drivers
via mii_attach(). This got us rid of all such hacks except those of
brgphy() in combination with bce(4) and bge(4), which is way beyond
what can be expressed with simple flags.
While at it, I took the opportunity to change the NIC drivers to pass
up the error returned by mii_attach() (previously by mii_phy_probe())
and unify the error message used in this case where and as appropriate
as mii_attach() actually can fail for a number of reasons, not just
because of no PHY(s) being present at the expected address(es).
Reviewed by: jhb, yongari
frame, make sure to update VLAN capabilities whenever jumbo frame
is configured.
While I'm here rearrange interface capabilities configuration. The
controller requires VLAN hardware tagging to make TSO work on VLANs
so explicitly check this requirement.
Tx DMA burst size 2048, I beleive PCIe maximum read request size
also should match to the value of Tx DMA burst size. With this
change I can get more than 800Mbps for TCP bulk transfers.
Previously I was not able to get more than 700Mbps. If I enable TSO
it now shows 927Mbps.
reacquiring driver lock in Rx handler. re(4) drops a driver lock
before passing received frame to upper stack and reacquire the
lock. During the time window ioctl calls could be executed and if
the ioctl was interface down request, driver will stop the
controller and free allocated mbufs. After that when driver comes
back to Rx handler again it does not know what was happend so it
could access free mbufs which in turn cause panic.
Reported by: Norbert Papke < npapk <> acm dot org >
Tested by: Norbert Papke < npapk <> acm dot org >
IF_ADDR_UNLOCK() across network device drivers when accessing the
per-interface multicast address list, if_multiaddrs. This will
allow us to change the locking strategy without affecting our driver
programming interface or binary interface.
For two wireless drivers, remove unnecessary locking, since they
don't actually access the multicast address list.
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 6 weeks
CPU for too long period than necessary. Additively, interfaces are kept
polled (in the tick) even if no more packets are available.
In order to avoid such situations a new generic mechanism can be
implemented in proactive way, keeping track of the time spent on any
packet and fragmenting the time for any tick, stopping the processing
as soon as possible.
In order to implement such mechanism, the polling handler needs to
change, returning the number of packets processed.
While the intended logic is not part of this patch, the polling KPI is
broken by this commit, adding an int return value and the new flag
IFCAP_POLLING_NOCOUNT (which will signal that the return value is
meaningless for the installed handler and checking should be skipped).
Bump __FreeBSD_version in order to signal such situation.
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
checksum offload frames. Software workaround used for broken
controllers(RTL8169, RTL8168, RTL8168B) seem to cause watchdog
timeouts on RTL8139C+.
Introduce a new flag RL_FLAG_AUTOPAD to mark automatic padding
feature of controller and set it for RTL8139C+ and controllers that
use new descriptor format. This fixes watchdog timeouts seen on
RTL8139C+.
Reported by: Dimitri Rodis < DimitriR <> integritasystems dot com >
Tested by: Dimitri Rodis < DimitriR <> integritasystems dot com >
It seems that RTL8168D and RTL8102EL requires additional settle
time to complete RL_PHYAR register write. Accessing RL_PHYAR
register right after the write causes errors for subsequent PHY
register accesses.
Tested by: george at luckytele dot com,
Steve Wills < STEVE at stevenwills dot com >
mapping. The tunable is OFF for all controllers except RTL8169SC
family. RTL8169SC seems to require more magic to use memory
register mapping. r187483 added a fix for RTL8169SCe controller but
it does not looke like fix other variants of RTL8169SC.
Tested by: Gavin Stone-Tolcher g.stone-tolcher <> its dot uq dot edu dot au
controllers that lose Tx completion interrupts under certain
conditions. With this change it's safe to use MSI on PCIe
controllers so enable MSI on these controllers.
- Always program RX configuration register from scratch instead of
doing read/modify/write.
- Rename re_setmulti() to re_set_rxmode() to be reflect reality.
- Simplify hash filter logic a little while I am here.
Reviewed by: yongari (early version)
event from mii(4) may not be delivered if valid link was already
established. To address the issue, check current link state after
driving MII_TICK. This should fix a regression introduced in
r185753 on fast ethernet controllers.
Reported by: csjp, Bruce Cran < bruce <> cran DOT org DOT uk >
Tested by: csjp, Bruce Cran (initial version)
command whenever Tx completion interrupt is raised. The Tx poll
bit is cleared when all packets waiting to be transferred have been
processed. This means the second Tx poll command can be silently
ignored as the Tx poll bit could be still active while processing
of previous Tx poll command is in progress.
To address the issue re(4) used to invoke the Tx poll command in Tx
completion handler whenever it detects there are pending packets in
TxQ. However that still does not seem to completely eliminate
watchdog timeouts seen on RealTek PCIe controllers. To fix the
issue kick Tx poll command only after Tx completion interrupt is
raised as this would indicate Tx is now idle state such that it can
accept new Tx poll command again. While here apply this workaround
for PCIe based controllers as other controllers does not seem to
have this limitation.
Tested by: Victor Balada Diaz < victor <> bsdes DOT net >
out of sleep mode prior to accessing to PHY. This should fix device
attach failure seen on these controllers. Also enable the sleep
mode when device is put into sleep state.
PR: kern/123123, kern/123053
Waiting for 1ms for each GMII register access looks overkill and it
may also decrease overall performance of driver because re(4)
invokes mii_tick for every hz.
Tested by: rpaulo
established a valid link or not. In miibus_statchg handler add a
check for established link is valid one for the controller(e.g.
1000baseT is not a valid link for fastethernet controllers.)
o Added a flag RE_FLAG_FASTETHER to mark fastethernet controllers.
o Added additional check to know whether we've really encountered
watchdog timeouts or missed Tx completion interrupts. This change
may help to track down the cause of watchdog timeouts.
o In interrupt handler, removed a check for link state change
interrupt. Not all controllers have the bit and re(4) did not
rely on the event for a long time. In addition, re(4) didn't
request the interrupt in RL_IMR register.
Tested by: rpaulo
reading from EEPROM doesn't seem to work on these controllers.
Reported by: Milan Obuch ( freebsd-net at dino dot sk )
Tested by: Milan Obuch ( freebsd-net at dino dot sk )
watchdog timeout issues and the root cause seems to stem from
silicon bug of controller. Personally I couldn't reproduce it on
RTL8169 controller but it seems it's dependent on usage pattern.
For newer PCIe based controllers I have no TSO complaints but
turning off TSO would be more safe. Users who are sure that
their controller works with TSO can still reenable the TSO with
ifconfig(8).
Reported by: Oliver Lehmann (lehmann at ans-netz dot de), Eugene Butusov (ebutusov at gmail dot com)
11bits. This limits the maximum interface MTU size in TSO case
as upper stack should not generate TCP segments with MSS greater
than the limit. Armed with this information, disable TSO if
interface MTU is greater than the limit.
